Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—An exohadge states that if a shirtbosom or other article has been scorched in ironing, laying it a while in the bright sunshine will take the discolored spot entirely out. —Do not darkon your rooms. Light is as important to nunian life as it is to vegetable growth. Sunshine gives ns much vigor to ttie human system as it does to tlio vegetable kingdom. lowa State Register. —The warmed-over beans and potatoes are not so good as the fresh, because they have lost some of tho qualities that recommend them for food. Warm them the second timo and they aro worse yet. — N. Y. Times. —Neither Indian corn, nor potatoes, nor squashes, nor carrots, qor cabbages, nor turnips, were known in Eftgland until tho sixteenth oentury. As they had no tobacco either, how did they manage to liveP— Chicago Journals —A British farmer, by the name of McKinloy, has this yoar' performed tho herculean task of collecting and planting 600 varieties of potatoes, and it is thought this groat assortment will afford excellent opportunity to correct much of the existing potato nomenclature. —There is no better timo than tho present for draining wet ground. Swamps aro now dry; work is not pressing; every foot of land a farmer owns should be mado profitable, and if tho season is permitted to pass and this work is neglected, a year must elapse beforo tho opportunity roturns. —Prairie Farmer. . As a flash producer, one pound of eggs is equal to one pound of beef. A hen may be calculated to consume one bushel of corn yoarly, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to saying that threo and one-tenth pounds of corn will produce, when fed to a hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork on the contrary requires about five and one-tenth pounds of corn for its production. When eggs are twentyfour cents a dozen and pork ten cents a pound, we have a bushel of corn fed, producings2.Bß worth of eggs and $1.05 of pork. Judging from those facts, eggs must be economical in their production and in their eating, and especially tit for the laboring man in replacing meat.— Exchange. —Cows accustomed to a great variety of food are invariably good eaters, and almost heavjfc milkers. Thus, the best cows ip the neighborhood are ! usually those of poor men, whose ono cow is made a pet of, and has all sbrts of food. Such cows are usually a good bargain at almost any price, though they rarely do as well when taken from their own old homes and tuimed in with the less varic4 fare accorded to larger herds. Milkmen have learned that it is important to give cows a variety of food. Hence their purchases of bran, meal, roots and oil-cake. It may not pay farmers to take so much pains, but they can promote tho thrift of their herds and their own profits by changing the animal’s food as often as possible.—Cor. Vountrt/ Gentleman.